NVIDIA took the wraps off its new integrated 9300 and 9400 chipsets today, the day after Apple launched new Macbook Pros that actually use the new 9400 design. That, apparently, is one of the benefits of being Apple—you get to announce other companies’ products before the company does. Apple, however, tends to focus more on style than nitty-gritty technical details; if you want concrete data on what the new chipsets bring to the table, today’s unveiling is for you.

The 9400 bears a certain resemblance to the AMD-flavored GeForce 8300 chipset that was introduced earlier this year, but there are two differences between them. Most obviously, of course, this is an Intel chipset (though it’s possible we might see an AMD version at some point), and it supports the 1333MHz bus speeds and memory ratios of the latest C2D processors, all while hanging an additional PCIe 2.0 x1 slot off the chip.

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(Ars Technica)